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Old 8th Feb 2009, 19:20
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con-pilot

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For used aircraft dealers in the US the only time the phone rings it is another salesman calling to see if a customer has called. A good friend of mine told me that he calls his office phone from his mobile phone to make sure his office phone is working. I started laughing and he looked at me and said, "I'm serious, I do call myself to make sure the phone is working."

As someone said the other day, "Six, eight months ago we had thirty customers running around trying to buy one $50 million dollar aircraft, today we have thirty $50 million dollar aircraft sitting around looking for one customer." If someone has the cash, or credit line, to buy, now would be a good time. However, I have a client and I actually told him that we need to wait for few more months because I believe the market will get worse before it recovers. I really hope I am wrong, but....

I do know that Dassault has a 7X available right now.
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